First of all, kudos to the devs for showing actual gameplay and actual mechanics from the game, not some fluffed-up cinematic that the released game won't match in theme or visual quality. I'd rather see this 100 times out of 100.

That said, I'm not getting "PREY" from any of what was shown. IP's generally are identified by a specific theme i.e. "Doom" means ridiculously fast shooting action against awesome looking demons for example. Based on the first game I feel like PREY means unsettling "which way is up???", wildly unpredictable firefights against creepy aliens. They got the "creepy aliens" down pat but nothing else.

And people have mentioned that they are making "System Shock", which I don't get at all. SS was all about incredibly disturbing atmosphere and imagery and the constant taunting of a ever-present all-seeing villain. (Shodan IS System Shock, and remains one of the greatest game villains of all time). NONE of that is in this trailer, so the parallels being drawn between SS and this game have me scratching my head.

Anyway, that's not to say that this short gameplay video shows everything there is to see about PREY, or that I didn't like what I saw, because I very much did. I just want to get a better idea of the big picture of the game.

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I've heard a lot of groaning on the internet that it will follow the typical Telltale formula for episodic adventure games. The way I see it that's only a negative if you dislike said formula. I happen to like everything I've played by Telltale a lot. The Wolf Among Us and The Walking Dead were immensely enjoyable for me. I guess I'm one of those who likes the formula.

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Odyssey cost the state of California $4.5 million as opposed to the $500 million homegrown project that was shot down by the court certification body. It's not hard to see why they chose Odyssey. I would think the problem would have to be with the people inputting the data, not the software itself. Unless Tyler Industries actually made a program that arbitrarily reverses court rulings??????

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Pigeon wrote on Nov 28, 2016, 11:21:Took my brain awhile to get there (even coffee isn't helping today) but it's Damian Wayne, not Damon Wayans as I first interpreted it . I was wondering why the hell he was involved with a Batman game, and who thought that would be a good idea.

Same. I was wondering, is that the one in Requiem For A Dream or one from White Chicks... (Turns out, neither.)

I never really get the "too little too late" comments that get thrown around whenever a dev tries to update a game that wasn't what it should have been at launch. If you paid $60 for the game, isn't developer support post launch a good thing?

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yuastnav wrote on Nov 24, 2016, 10:49:Shadow Warrior 2 is a whole different beast to me. TB criticised it because of the whole "looter shooter" thing which is ridiculous to me because I never looked at this game this way. The shooting feels tremendously satisfying, the maps are great and the movement is so much fun. You can be so fast in this game.

Total Biscuit likes straight run and gun. I saw his critique of Shadow Warrior 2 and everything he listed as a negative for him basically sold the game to me. I picked it up on sale and I am going to install it soon.

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And he’s not altogether wrong. Studies have found that the majority of H-1B visas are going to a handful of India-based IT outsourcing firms, such as Tata Consultancy Service and Infosys, that flood the program with applications. That makes their applicants more likely to win the visa lottery, meaning Tata and Infosys, which place these workers in jobs, are more likely to profit. One particularly startling statistic: In 2014, 20 companies—including the likes of IBM and Google—were awarded more than 32,000 visas to bring in foreign workers, despite the fact that 10,000 companies applied. While companies like Google and Apple tend to pay these workers fair market rates, many of the outsourcing firms amassing these visas do not.

For every H-1B holder worried about what will happen if Trump slashes the program, there’s another worker worried about what will happen if he doesn’t.“The vast majority of H-1B workers are brought in because they are cheaper than Americans, not because they hold any specialized skills,” says Ronil Hira, an Economic Policy Institute researcher and associate professor of public policy at Howard University."

I'm as concerned as anyone about the next four years now that this clown is in the White House, but this quoted section does illustrate that what has been going on has, at least in some part, in fact been harmful to American workers and unfair to foreign workers.

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